Estuche Viña Tondonia Reserva 2011 (x2)
Descripción
Otra añada más la atemporalidad hecha vino. Su característico largo envejecimiento en barrica y reposo en botella es reflejo del buen hacer de la histórica bodega López de Heredia para crear tintos suaves, redondos, bien desarrollados y con larga capacidad de guarda, como su emblemático reserva. Un vino clásico en sus formas que a nadie dejará indiferente y que procede de una añada calificada como Excelente por el Consejo Regulador de la D.O.Ca. En esta ocasión se presenta en un estuche de madera original de la bodega con dos botellas, formato ideal para regalar.
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Opinión de los críticos
A traditional beauty that effuses iron, warm earth and savory tobacco leaves, together with plums, spices and orange zest. This is juicy and still tight, with firm but savory tannins. Medium-weight and quite zesty in texture, as is the case with the other López de Heredia reds tasted this session. Drink now or hold.
Aged for nearly six years in very old barrels, Tondonia is one of Rioja's most proudly traditional wines. Tempranillo dominated, with 20% Garnacha and 5% of both Graciano and Mazuelo, this is complex, mature and well-structured, with plenty of acidity, sinewy tannins, some balsamic sweetness and a taut, focused, age-worthy finish. 2023-35
The 2011 Viña Tondonia Reserva is darker and shows riper fruit, a rounder palate and some dusty tannins. A year of ripeness, concentration and tannin, the wine is powerful with the finesse of Tondonia. Tasting this next to the textbook 2010 Tondonia revealed how this has more muscle and a wider back and the 2010 epitomizes the finesse and elegance. 270,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2019.